National Eat Outside Day “Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.” ---Fennel Hudson

National Tofu Day “The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.” ---Sylvia Boorstein

National Grits for Breakfast Day “That’s all a grit is a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.” ---Kathryn Stockett, The Help

National Baby Back Ribs “Barbecue is a dance of flavors, a symphony of smoke and spice.” --Johnny Trigg

National Macadamia Nut Day “Macadamia nuts earn a distinction above other nuts and seeds because of their superior nutritional value.” ---Mark Sisson

National Cheese Pizza Day “Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.” ---Anna Quindlen

National Coffee Ice Cream Day “My favorite ice cream is Haugen-Dazs coffee.” ---Rob Kardashian

National Salami Day “I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.” ---Stephen King

National Date Nut Bread Day “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” ---James Beard

National Wiener Schnitzel Day “I’d say I’m a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make-schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.” ---Heidi Klum

National TV Dinner Day “I don’t like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio.” ---Phyllis Diller

National Hot Cross Bun Day “Come along inside...we’ll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.” ---Kenneth Grahame

National Blackberry Day “Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarfrost lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.” ---Margaret Mead

National Peanut Day “The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.” ---Mario Diaz-Balart

National Cream-filled Donut Day “You can’t beat a good doughnut. It has to be a jam one with light pastry and sugar on the outside. If I’m really tired, I have to hunt one down, because it gives me that sugar rush to keep me going.” ---Paul Hollywood

National Cheese Toast Day “I’m into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful.” ---Emma Stone

National Guacamole Day “I always love a side of guacamole with everything.” ---Erin Heatherton

National Apple Dumpling Day “I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream.” ---Mark Twain

National Cheeseburger Day “I can’t be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.” ---Bobby Flay

National Butterscotch Pudding Day “I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.” ---Bruno Mars

National Fried Rice Day “May your rice never burn’, is the New Year’s greeting of the Chinese. ‘May it never be gummy is ours.” ---Irma S. Bombauer

National Sponge Candy Day “I always saw candy as art.” ---Dylan Lauren

National Ice Cream Cone Day “Life is like an ice-cream cone; you have to lick it one day at a time.” ---Charles M. Schulz

National Great American Pot Pie Day “Chicken pot pie – those are my three favorite things.” ---Pablo Francisco

National Cherries Jubilee Day “Watch out for cherries jubilee...they are a little overly jubilant.” Quote from Frasier TV episode

National Lobster Day “When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.” ---Ziad K. Abdelnour

National Cream Cheese Day “I like cream cheese in just about anything.” ---Diane Mott Davidson

National Chocolate Milk Day “Chocolate milk has everything I need in a drink: the carbs, the protein and the electrolytes. It’s even backed up by science, showing how you’re able to recover. I can speak from experience; this is what I drink.” ---Al Horford  

National Strawberry Cream Pie Day “I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.” ---Nora Ephron

National Coffee Day “Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.” ---Terri Guillemets

National Hot Mulled Cider Day “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” ---Diana Gabaldon

National Pumpkin Spice Day “I am falling in love with autumn, the smell of warm cider, the orange color leaves, pumpkins everywhere, and the crisp breeze.” ---Charmaine J. Forde

National Smarties Day “Candy is childhood, the bet and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.” ---Dyland Lauren

National Caramel Custard Day “When you’re three, you’re into custard, and jumping.” ---Russell Howard

National Cinnamon Bun Day “Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.” ---Daniel Handler